Change-giving fare-box.



No. 851,303. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907. D. G. MCKENZIE- GHANGE GIVING FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 9,1907.

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UNITED i STATES PATENT; orrion.

e.- MoKENZIE, or VANCOUVER, BRIT1SH. commit, CANADA.-

CHANGE-GIVING FAngs-aoxlfi To it may concern: i :liie it knownjthat I, DONALD G. MCKENZIE, a 011212611 015 the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vanc'0uver,1 in the Province of British Columbi'afCanada, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Change-Giving Fare- Boxes, of which following is a specifica- This invention relates to a change giving fare-box for street-car conductors use and is of that class which is carried inthe hand of the conductor. andpresented to the passengers that .they they themselves deposit within it their fare ticket or the cash equivalent.

- purposes of convenience limited to the The invention is fully described in the following specification referencebeing made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1, is a vertical section through a box designed for United States currency from fifty cents to five cents. Fig. 2, is a section of the same, on the line AA on Fig. 1'. Fig.

nary units of currency.

3, a plan of the cash selecting plates, and Fig. 4, a vertlcal section showing the =bearing sleeves ofthe selecting plates and the levers therefrom which operate the coin slides, of the magazine, 'Fig. 4 being a development of the clutch connection. j

In these drawings 2;re presents the external 'casingof the fare-box, 3 being the handle'by which it is carried by the conductor and presented to the passengers. .The casing 2 is re. movably secured by meanaof a suitable lock to a base 4 which forms the bottom of the box. Secured to this base 4 are light side frames 5 and tothese side frames 5 the several parts of the internalmechanism etc. are attached-in such a manner that when the outer casing 2 is removed suchparts are entirely exposed and accessible.

The top and backof the casing2 is preferably made of glass sodas to afford aview of the interior. n .the top is a slit 6 through which the cash or ticket is passed by the pas senger into the b0x,-a chute 7 deliveringit Specification of Letters Patent.

ing plate 8 mounted'on pivots 9 in the side frames 5. This chute 7 also prevents the cash within being shaken out through the slit. In its normal position the plate 8 is inclined slightly upward toward the front so as to be approximately horizontal when the" box is he (1 in the hand and inclined forward to revealtheslit 6 to a passenger on presentation for the deposit of a fare. r

The tilting of the plate is effected by a le- Patented Aplll. 2a, 1907; g Application filed January 9, 1907. Serial No. 351,464- i toward the front where it falls upon a receivver or levers 10 on each side which, are con nected at ll to the plate 8 forward of the axis .of v its mevement. The levers 10 are pivotally mounted ona light shaft 13 extending between the side frames 5 which shaft also serves to carry other'j'operative parts to be described later. Thefbackward ends of the levers 10 are connected by a bar 12 extending between them, aid in the middle of this bar is removably attached a thumb key 14 projecting through an elongated aperture in the back of the outer casing 2 immediately over"the handle 3 so as to be readily o erated by thethumb 6f the hand holding The dc ression of the thumb key 14 will thus tilt t eplate 8 by elevatin its 1: e box.

front edge as'indicated by dot and dash ines' in Fig. 1. The late 8 is maintained in its normal position y aspring 15 connected to.

one of the levers 10 and to the adjacent side frameor other'fixed part. r l

Extending across the width of the box and sloping downward toward the back, covering the shaft'13 is a plate 16 having an upwardly projectin directing lip 17 sloping from the upper e ge of 16 at one side to-the lower edge toward the other but terminating at such a distance from the adjacent side The number of the plates corres onds to thenumber of the denominations 0 coins which the box is designed to receive, and the width of the several plates corresponds to the diameter of their res ective coins, the plates being arranged in t e order of the diameter of the coins from' the lar est, 20 adjacent to ICO" the space 1-8 to the smal est 23 at the other side. As represented in the drawing, four plates 20, 21, 22, 23 are shown to accommodate respectively vIO and checks any tendency to shake back.

fiity .cent and twenty-five cent pieces, five cent nickelsand ten cent pieces. The lower sides of these plates 20, 21, 22, 23, or the underside of thespurs 27 on which they are fastened, normally rest upon a bar 19 secured to and extending between the levers 10."

Upwardly projecting-from each plate .20,

2 1, 22, 23, is a check pin 24 to engage the upper edge, toward the smaller sizes, of t e coin for which-each plate is designed, so that a coin will pass from the side of the larger size plates toward the smaller size ones and be stopped by the check pin 24 centrally on the width of the plate for which it has been designed. Each plate is stepped below the, one of higher value or more properly of.

larger size immediatelv preceding .it, as

shown in Fig. 2. This facilitates the move'- I plates, pass through the apertures 25 without depressing the plates, but if a coin rests on any plate that'plate will be depressed by the pin 26. engaging the upper surface of the coin.

ment which depresses a selecting plate on which a coin rests also carries down the bar 19 on which theplates normally rest, but the bar begins to move before the plate because the lower end of the pin 26 is clear of the upper face of the'coin and must come into contact withthat coin before it can move the plate, the late being sustained in the interim. by t e friction of other mechanism connected to them, tobe described later.

.Therefore when the thumb is removed from its key and the lever bar 12 is lifted under the influence of its spring 15 the pin26 lifts off the coinon the plate before the bar 19' en gages the underside of the plate spur 27 t0 restore it to. its normal position, and in. this I interval of freedom, the coin slides downward 35 of a cash ,the bottom of the chute.

deliver through the chutes 31 into cylindrical; coinmagazines .37, 38, 39, 'until such maga-= Zines are full, when the. last "coindelive'red p change, that payment'may hevdelivere off the plate andisdelivered into a chute 30' 5,5 tion does not again require to be delivered in beneath. As the coin of highest denominachange the-plate 20v delivers into a division 1 The. other plates I being unable to fall into -its "niagazine, per-- I ates by the retentionof its'uplplegegge witltililn c ivert's Q box.

It will be observed that the same move ox'sitnated beneath but clear of f coin into a general division 36 of the cash The coinswitch 32 is weighted in relation to its pivot to normally deliver into the magazine but the lower end 33 below the pivot 34 projects in the path ofthe chute to be engaged by a coin therein.

At-the base of each coin magazine is a coin slide 28 having an aperture 29 corresponding with the bore of the magazine, and the thickness of the slide is such that it will withdraw one or more coins according to what-1s ecessary to make up therequired chang thus with the machine illustrated the slide of the twenty-five cent and the five cent nickel magazine deliver only one coin as no more than one is ever required to make up change for a single fare of five cents from a maximum payment of fifty cents; but the coin slide of the ten cent magazine is thick enough to deliver two ten cent pieces on each withdrawal as never less than that number is re uired from it, under the conditions named a ove.

The coin slides are operated to withdraw there uired coin or coins trom the several magazines 37, 38, or 39, by levers 44, 45, and 46, connected to certain of the sleleves 40, 4] and 43 which the coin selectingplates are mounted on the shaft 13. These levers are connected to the sleeves in'i the machine under consideration in the following par ticular manner:

'The lever 44 of the coin slide of the twentyfive cent magazine 37 is secured to the sleeve 40 of the fifty cent selecting plate 20, but as a ayment of fifty cents 0 cover afive cent are requires in addition] tothe twenty-five cent piece thedeliver'y of two ten cent pieces from the magazine 39 on the extreme opposite side of the machine, the lever 46 which operates the coin slide'of the ten cent magazine 39 is secured to a sleeve 41 which extends across, and the adjacent edges of the sleeves 40 and 41. are provided'with a clutch engagement 47 (see Fig. 4*) that will-allow 40 to operate 41 but will permit the sleeve 41 to be moved without operating 40.

To the sleeve 41 is secured the twenty-five cent selecting plate 21, as when payment of twenty-five cents is made for a single five cent fare, twenty cents, two ten cent pieces, is always required as change. The ten cent selecting plate 23 which, as the size of the ten ,cent iece is less than that of the five cent nicks must be beyond theten cent plate to the'right, is secured to a sleeve 43 which is mounted so as to be movablevon the sleeve IZC 41, and the lever 45 which operates the coin slide of the five cent Ina azine 38, is secured ment is made on a five cent farea nickel is re- :leased as change from itsa'magazine 38. ,As a

ayment of five cents does not rerruire rect into. the cash box from' the-receiving to this sleeve, so that w en a tencent pay- I change in the magazine, the five cent nickel selecting plate is secured to a sleeve 42 mounted on the sleeve 43, but no coin slide lever is attached to it. As the cash box 35,

36 is required to selplarate the upper part of the fare-box in'to w 'ch the coin is deposited and, where necessary, selected and distributedfrom the lower part into which the change is delivered from the coin magazines by the coin slides, each coin slide lever may be provided with a casing 50 carried up to where the movement is slight, so as to preclude the possibility of coins passing from the upper to the lower part of the box through the space necessary for the'movement of the levers.

' In the operation of the device the fare-box is presented to apassengerwho deposits the sage 18 onto the selecting plates, and is t en tilted downward to the right to permit the coin to slide over, the lates until stopped by the check pin 24 on t e late corresponding to its value. The thum key 14 is then depressed when the selecting plate on which the coin rests is pressed downward, by the pin 26 of that plate, the other pins passing through the apertures 25 of their respective plates, and the magazine coin slide necessary to give the required change from the coin deposited less one fare, in this case five cents, is withdrawn by one of the levers 44, 45, or 46 which change drops from the slide into the bottom of the box whence. it is delivered through the delivery slit 48 into the hand of the operator or of the passenger. 5 On release of the thumb key the pin 26 is lifted from the face of the coin on the-selecting plate by the action of the spring 15 restoring the mechanism, and the coin falls through the chute 30 or 31 as the case may be into either the division 35 of the cash box or the coin magazine 37, 38, or 39 according to its value. I 1

:It willbe observed that althou h this device has been described as ap lica le for certain of the lower coins of U. currency it is l equallyapplicable with modifications as to size and manner of connecting the selecting plates to the coin slide'levers, etc. to-any other coins; for example in applying it to 9 Canadian requirements where t e five cent piece ,isof silver and therefore smaller than the ten cent piece there will be no necessity for a five cent selecting plate but as that coin is required for change in the magazine it will pass ovefthe other plates and drop over the therefore to be confined to the further edge of the ten cent late into thefive cent magazine beneath. do not desire articular arrangement described, of the se ecting'plates and magazines, and the means whereby the several selecting plates operate the coin slide of the magazines as such will be arranged to suit the particular re uirements of the currency which. the fare ox is designed to ac commodate.

Having now particularly described y invention and the manner of its opera 10m and use, I hereby declare that what I. claim as new and desire to be protected in -by Letters Patent is:

1. A change giving fare-box comprising a casing having a coin receiving aperture and a coin delivery aperture, cylindrical coin magazines in the lower part of the casing above the bottom thereof, a coin withdrawing slide for each magazine, coin selecting plates to ward the upper part of the box arranged according to their width from the wider on one side to the narrower on the otherside, means for pivotally mounting said plates toward one end, said pivotally mounting means including a common axis or. 'shaft susceptible ofa limited pivotal depression, means for deressing the plate on which a'coin rests to deiver the coin into its respective magazine,-

said depressing means including means for temporarily retaining the coin on the depressed plate, and means cooperating with said depressing means 0t certain of the selecting plates for withdrmling a coin or coins 'from certain of the mag zines.

2. A change giving fare-box comprising a casing, a receiving plate within the casing,

' means for tilting the same, a series of coin selecting plates hinged adjacent thereto, the width of said plates being adapted respectively to the several sizes of coins the casing is designed to accommodate and arranged according to the size of the coin from the larger on the one side to the smaller on the other, coin magazines cooperating with said selec ting plates, a check on eachplate that Wlll stop a coin on the plate for which it 1 s designed while allowing a coin of smaller size to -pass,"means for depressing the plate on which a coin rests, means for delivering the coin into its magazine, means cooperating with certain of the coin selecting plates for withdrawing a coin or coins from certain of the magazines, to make up the required change from the coin selecting plate.

situated above the coin slides of. the maga IIO 1 receiving plate toward the upper art of the zines, a receiving plate toward the upper part of the casing, means for tilting such plate to deliver a 00111 or coins direct into thegeneral cash or ticket box, a series of independently pivotally mounted coin selecting plates extending across the casing and slopmg downward from about the level of the back edge of the receiving plate toward the back of the casing, a check pin on each plate that will stop a coin on the plate for which it is designed, a bar across the plates depressible toward them, means for de ressing said bar said bar having a downwar l projecting pin over each plate that will when the bar is depressed pass through an aperture in the p ate beneath but that will if a coin occupies the plate press the plate down, means for.

withdrawing certain of the magazine coin slides when certain of the selecting plates are depressed and means for restoring the mechanism to its normal position.

4. A change giving fare-box, comprising a locked casing having acoin receiving aperture toward the upper part and a change delivering aperture toward the bottom, a 'series of cylindrical coin magazines situated toward-the lower part ofthe casing but clear of the bottom an apertured coin withdrawing slide for each magazine normally in alignment with the boreof themagazine, a coin casing, a series' of coin selecting p ates adjacent but partitioned from the receiving plate except at one side said selecting lates adapt} ed in width to the diameter oi the several coins the box is designed. to accommodate and independently hinged toward one edge,

.a bar pivotally mounted toward the axis on mally rest, means for depressing the pivotally mounted bar, a key external to the box forming a part of said depressing means, levers secured to certain of the coin selecting plates the free ends of which levers are in en and described.

gagement with the magazine coin slides to withdraw such slides when: the external key is depressed, and a coin occupies certain of the selecting plates, means for delivering coins from certain of the selecting plates to a cash box situated alongside of the magazines, and means for delivering coins fromcertain other of the selecting plates to the coin magazines.

5. A change giving fare-box comprising a I ocked casing having a coin receiving apertur'e toward the upper part and a change delivery aperture toward the" bottom, a receiving plateand means for tilting the same, coin selecting plates consisting of a series of pivotally mounted plates stepped one below the other from the wider on one side to the narrower on the other, means for depressing one of said plates on which a coin may rest,

a series of coin magazines beneath, means for delivering a coin fr'om'any one of said 1plates into a corresponding coin magazine eneath, and means for delivering a com from the plates into a general cash rece tacle when the magazine to which it she d otherwise deliver is full, and means for withdrawing a coin or coins from the magazines as the plates are depressed 1 6. A change giving fareibox comprising a casing having coinreceiving. and change delivery apertures, a receiving plate, means for v tilting the receiving plate, coin selecting plates within the casing, means for depressing one ofsaid plates'on which a :coin may rest, a series of coin magazmes beneathsaid plates, means for'delivering' 'acoin from any one of said plates to a corresponding coin magazine beneath, means for delivering 'a coin 'from the plates into a general cash receptacle at times, means for withdrawing a com or co ns from the magazines, said means being cooperative with the plates as they are being depressed, substantially as shown In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the'presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DONALD e. MC ENZIE.

Witnesses:

ROWLAND BRITTAIN, ;CLIvn S. CARMAN. 

